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candle, perhaps, in consequence of the heat ; but it was only within the 
first thirty-six hours that this took place, and but once. 
Lycid^. — The reporter has remarked (Arch. 1842, i. p. 100), on the 
genera Lycus^ Lygistopterus {Dictyopterus, Guer.), Porrostoma, and 
MetriorhyncJius, that they contain the species with a proboscis ; but that 
only three of them can be maintained : Lycus (distinguished by the 
rudimentary mandibles), and Lygistopterus, both with antennaB at the 
base of the proboscis ; and Porrostoma, with them attached to the fore- 
head. Each of these has a long and a short proboscal division ; Me- 
triorhynchus, Guer., is the short proboscal division of Porrostoma. 
In the same volume (p. 144), several species are described from Van Die- 
men’s Land ; Porrostoma erythropterum, P. ( Metriorh.) rujipennis (the 
true Lyc. rujipennis, F.), P. (If.) marginatus, discoideus ; Anarhynchus 
scutellaris. Buquet has made known five South American species of the 
form which corresponds to the genus Dictyopterus, Guer. (Rev. Zool. 
p. 6) : L. regalis, humeralis, from Bogota ; 3-fasciatus, imperialis, from 
Columbia ; 4:-costatus, from Brazil. It is to be remarked, that the first 
species, Lycus succinctus, Latr., is in Humboldt’s collection, and that 
the generic name, Lygistopterus, used long ago by Mulsant, is to be 
preferred to that of Guerin, which Latreille has used in another 
sense. 
Telephorid^e. — Redtenbacher has characterized Cantharis nigripes 
as a new species from the Schneeberg, in Austria (Col. Aust. p. 13) ; but it 
is the same with G. harhara, F., pallida, Rossi ; which, besides Barbary, 
is also found in Portugal, Italy, and Switzerland. Cantharis nobili- 
tata of the reporter, is a new species from Van Diemen’s Land (Arch. 
1842, i. p. 146). 
Melyrides, — Redtenbacher has described a new Austrian species of 
the Malachii (Col. Aust. p. 14), Anthocomus festivus ; the reporter has 
described another from Van Diemen’s Land (Arch. 1842. i. p. 147), 
Attains ahdominalis. 
Graells has described a new Spanish Dasytes, allied to the D. nohilis, 
but of flatter shape, as D. ciliatus (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. xi. p. 221, 
t, 10, f. 3-6). It lives on the floAvers of Cistus monspeliensis, and 
alhidus. 
Clerii. — A comprehensive work on the Clerii, founded on the 
Berlin collection, has appeared by Klug in the Schriften der Kdnigl. 
Acad, der Wissensch, “ Versuch einer systematischen Bestimmung und 
Auseinandersetzung der Gattungen und Arten der Clerii, einer Insecten 
familie aus der Ordnung der Coleopteren.” Systematical arrangement is 
here difficult, as the genera are very nearly allied to each other ; nu- 
merous repetitions of individual forms and colours occur in each, so that 
the appearance is quite deceptive ; besides, a great number of smaller 
divisions and groups are found, which are neither sufficiently marked 
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